[PATCH xkeyboard-config] Use of dead_greek symbol in Bepo's keyboard layout

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 13:47 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux wrote:

> Le mer. 30 nov. 2011 16:14:17 CET,
> Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> a écrit :
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:48 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux wrote:
> > 
> > > FreeDesktop Bug 21475
> > > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21475> ---
> > >  symbols/fr |    2 +-
> > >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/symbols/fr b/symbols/fr
> > > index a1dbb59..c58eb0d 100644
> > > --- a/symbols/fr
> > > +++ b/symbols/fr
> > > @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ xkb_symbols "bepo" {
> > >      key <AB05> { [               k,            K,
> > > asciitilde                 ] }; // k K ~ key <AB06>
> > > { [      apostrophe,     question,   questiondown,
> > > dead_hook ] }; // ' ? ¿ ̉ key <AB07>
> > > { [               q,            Q, dead_abovering,
> > > dead_belowdot ] }; // q Q ˚ ̣
> > > -    key <AB08> { [               g,            G,
> > > mu                 ] }; // g G µ
> > > +    key <AB08> { [               g,            G,
> > > dead_greek                 ] }; // g G µ
> > 
> > Shouldn't the comment be changed as "mu" is no longer defined?
> > 
> > Does this patch affect the keyboard layout drawn in the comment above
> > the code?
> > 
> > Can you mention in the commit text what happens to the "mu" character?
> > Is it gone forever, relocated?
> 
>   The "mu" code is already used by the Bépo's layout graphical
> presentation, as visible here : http://bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil, when
> putting your mouse cursor over the keyboard ; the dead letters are
> shown with a red colour.
> 
>   We use the "mu" code for dead greek code as mu is a greek letter, the
> only one available from the "standard" french keyboard ; Moreover,
> using the dead_greek code with a space or with itself produces a "mu"
> character, as defined in the libX11's patch :
> 
> +<dead_greek> <dead_greek>   : "µ"   U00B5    # MICRO SIGN
> +<dead_greek> <nobreakspace> : "µ"   U00B5    # MICRO SIGN
> +<dead_greek> <space>        : "µ"   U00B5    # MICRO SIGN
> 
> 
>   Should I send an updated patch with this text appended in the
> comment ?

I misunderstood, I thought this was doing a "replacement". 

Acked-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>

Thanks,
Gaëtan

> 
> 	Thanks for the feedback,
> 		Fred.


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